Saraki Must Be Impeached – Oshiomhole

BY SEGUN ADEBAYO, ABUJA – National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Adams Oshiomhole, on Friday said Senator Bukola Saraki’s reign as Senate President is soon to be over as majority of senators on the platform of the APC are set to impeach him.
Declaring this at a press briefing in Abuja, Oshiomhole vowed that Saraki must be impeached in accordance with the Constitution, adding that he would not be the first or the last President of the Senate to be impeached.
“He will definitely be impeached according to law and democratic norms; the only way Saraki can avoid impeachment is for him to do what is honourable.
“This again, led to the issue of character we saw in Sen. Godswill Akpabio who was the PDP leader in the Senate.
“Once he made up his mind to leave the PDP, even before announcing his defection, he wrote to his party as a man of honour, informing them of his resignation.
“Sen. Saraki has demonstrated neither character nor being a man of honour; once he made up his mind to leave the APC, the honourable thing for him to do is to resign,” Oshiomhole said.
“I think Saraki’s time is over; the way he has manipulated the politics of Kwara, he failed to understand that Nigeria’s national project is far more complicated.
“He will not only be impeached, we will have him defeated as a senator in his own senatorial zone by the people of Kwara who are fed up with Saraki.’’
Oshiomhole lampooned the Senate President for never acting in the nation’s interest as he claimed, adding that Saraki had always acted in a manner that promotes personal interest and his irrevocable desire to cling to power.
According to the APC National Chairman, “The President of the Senate raised the issue that he had always acted not on the bases of his own personal interest, but on national interest.
“The truth is that it is doubtful if he has ever acted either on national interest or in the interest of his own political party before his recent defection.”
He recalled that Saraki connived with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to become the President of the Senate, contrary to the position of the ruling APC.